Bankrupting A Great City (The Story of New York)

From the FOREWORD. The first ten chapters of this story were written in 1911, the succeeding twelve in 1913, and the last four in 1915. It required no gift of prophecy to foretell the result of accumulated waste and mismanagement such as described in the following pages. The purpose of the story which is based solely on facts, is to awaken the people in all large cities to the danger which confronts them. Unless the cities acquire additional revenues or curtail the cost of government, bankr...